Radio: OWI Bear Hug

OWI pressure on the 14 short-wave stations in the U.S. was fast becoming
a bear hug last week. At the war's start, the Nazis had 68 short-wave
stations; the Axis-in-Europe now controls an estimated 100. Great
Britain has about 50. The U.S. has 14privately owned, loosely
synchronized, a poor match all around for the close teamwork of radio
Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. If the overseas branch of the OWI intended to jump
with both feet into the global propaganda war, it had to do something
about short-wave stations and do it quickly.